Multi-town Missouri fire and public notices in August
Southeast News reports Bonne Terre fires on August 25 destroying several business houses with losses in the thousands and Elvina Riverside hotel plus two other buildings burned on August 27. Loyd Clifton of DeSoto died in the blaze, leaving a widow and child. Farmington News covers a severely injured nine year old from Cantwell by a 22 cal rifle accident, an exploding whiskey barrel injuring two Dalton boys, a local preacher urging good conduct, a Mitchell robbery of $175 by a masked man, and MPs on Amendment No. 4 explaining legislative pay and government efficiency with arguments for and against the proposal.
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Riverside
Elvina
Loyd Clifton
DeSoto
Farmington News
Joe Gibson
Cantwell
McClelland
Parmington News
Will Dalton
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Illinoia
Missouri
Beat
Mexican rail traffic to resume with Gould lines through Laredo
Telegrams from railroad leaders say traffic with the United States is resuming as the constitutionalists gain control of Mexican railways. Interchange is planned at Laredo with freight moved in the International & Great Northern yards. Through bills will not yet be issued. shippers must arrange payments, transfers, and entries. A daily passenger train runs from Laredo to Saltillo as open lines await full reopening to Mexico City.
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N. M. Leach
Texas & Pacific
International & Great Northern
H.C. Dikins
Gould Lines
Missouri Pacific-Iron Mountain
Mexico
United States
Iron Mountain
Laredo
Texas
National Railways of
Dinkins
Leach
Mexican Railways
Mexican
Denike
San Antonio
Monterey
Saltillo
Mexico City
San Luis Potosi
Missouri Press Association Meeting in St Louis Promises Reunion
The Missouri Press association holds its annual meeting in St Louis on September 16 1718. The event aims to be a large family reunion of newspaper people with wives of publishers and other members eligible to attend. C M McWilliams issued a bulletin on the northeast Missouri horse industry describing market requirements and why horse owners should have it.
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Courtesis
St. Louis
Missouri Press Association
S. Louis
Paris
C. M. McWilliams
Cape County
Missouri
Government to dispose 12000 acres near Yellowstone by drawing
On September 18 the government will distribute 12000 acres by lottery in the Truckee Carson project Nevada. Under the reclamation extension act approved last week by the president settlers gain 20 years to repay water right loans without interest. An uncommon chance for prospective homesteaders to profit and aid war-torn nations.
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Yellowstone Park
Truckee-Carson Project
Nevada
Fourne
The Press War Summary Promises Clearer View of Fronts
The Press offers a weekly concentrated account from authentic sources, claiming to present a clearer view of conditions than metropolitan papers that rely on chaotic dispatches. It asserts readers will be fully informed about the real progress of the struggle through its summaries.
Measurement rules for cisterns and grains from Colorado College
The text provides formulas for capacity and volume in gallons and bushels. It covers rectangular tanks by multiplying length width and height in feet and then by 74. Cylindrical tanks use base radius squared times pi and times 7. For bushels in bins, multiply the three dimensions in feet and divide by 1. Lin. It notes a shelled corn equivalence and reverses the process for inverses. It specifies measurement conventions for grain and produce, warns about heaping measures, and gives standards for U.S. gallon and Winchester bushel.
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United States
Winchester
Fred Gierson
Colorado Agricultural College
Resolutions Adopted by Marble Hill Baptist Sunday School
The Marble Hill Baptist Sunday School records the death of Nellie Robins on August 16 1914 after long suffering. It notes sorrow at the loss while praising her patience and faith and offers heartfelt sympathy to Nellie Robins family and the Sunday School.
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Baptist Sunday School of
Marble Hill
Nellie Robins
Nellie
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Southeast News
Bonne Terre
Dromton
Joe Knight
J. R. Mason
Mitchell
Joe
Bank of Leadwood
Spider Saloon
John
Slim) Sutton
Mason
Cornelius Roach
General Assembly
New York
Jackson
FORD
Fo. B
Detroit
United States of America
Ford Motor Company
Perry Johnson
Alliance
Weevily
Seth Bapcock
Cape Girardeau Normal School
Chicago
Albert W. Leonard
Rereclamation Service
Federal
Europe
America
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